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sician. There are several ornamental species, but being tender 

 they are little grown. V. glaucopis has the large outer peri- 

 anth-segments of a pure white with a blue spot in the centre 

 encircled with brown. V. villosa, syn. Morcea villosa, has 

 lilac flowers whose outer perianth-lobes have a blue blotch 

 separated by a black stripe from the orange centre. 



4. FERRARIA. 



Near Morcea, but with the filaments united in a tube and the 

 petaloid stigmas fringed. A South African genus of several 

 species with curiously spotted evanescent flowers. F. undulata 

 has the flowers spotted with purple upon a green ground, and 

 there are many other remarkable species. Named after Ferrari, 

 an Italian botanist. 



5. MORJ^A. 



Plants very much resembling the Irises, but with all the 

 divisions of the perianth equally spreading. Perianth-tube 

 short, the three inner segments of its limb smaller, convolute 

 after flowering. Stamens distinct. Style slender, with three 

 petaloid bifid stigmas. Leaves few and narrow. Flowers of 

 various colours, rising from spathaceous sheaths. Chiefly from 

 South of Africa. Named in honour of R. Moore, an English 

 botanist. The species are numerous and very showy. We 

 may mention : M . blcolor, yellow, the outer petals with a dark 

 purple spot encircled with orange, much larger than the inner ; 

 M. iridioldes, white, with yellow or brown spots ; M. edulis, 

 very much like an Iris, with violet flowers, outer lobes of the 

 perianth with a yellow spot at the base. M. Sisyrinchium, . 

 syn. M. Tenoriana and Iris Sisyrinchium, is a South European 

 species, with purple or blue flowers. 



6. SCHIZOSTYLIS. 



This genus consists of one species, 8. coccineus^ a very beauti- 

 ful South African plant. It has a leafy stem about 3 feet high 

 and bright crimson flowers similar to those of Gladiolus. 

 Perianth salver-shaped, with equal spreading segments ; stigmas 

 filiform. From <r^/o), to cut, and crruXos-, a column, in allusion 

 to the filiform stigmas. 



7. TIGRlDIA. 



American bulbous dwarf plants with ensiform leaves as in 

 Iris. The flowers are large and beautiful, but of short dura- 

 tion, always terminal, orange or yellow richly spotted, hence the 

 name Tiger-Flower. Perianth-tube short, limb spreading, the 



